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In what is likely to be great news for all the moms trying to find a good work-home balance, a recent study found that working moms are happiest, reports Salon.

The working mom study, published in December's Journal of Family Psychology, says that working mothers are healthier and happier than stay-at-home mothers.

The one catch with the study is that while it takes data over ten years, the decade is from 1991 onwards. Also, the study may not be entirely correct, as it focused mostly on part-time working moms, notes Salon. Obviously there is a great deal of a difference between a full-time working mom and a part-time working mom, which the working mom study may have ignored.

Texas was one of the five states in a study which evaluated how debt compromises in child support arrears cases were being handled.

A study by the Health and Human Services and conducted by the federal Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Child Support Enforcement looked at how debt compromises in child support arrears cases were handled in Texas.

Texas was one of the five states evaluated by the federal study. The other states included New Mexico, California, Massachusetts, and Washington.

A lot of Texans paid attention when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that after an arrest for license suspension, former Houston Rockets center Ralph Sampson clarified that he had not had his license suspended for missing child support payments.

Ralph Sampson’s clarification brought to attention the fact that missed child support payments can lead to license suspensions — something most Texans don’t know.

But it is true.

Most people in Texas have come across news of the occasional difficulty of tracking down deadbeat parents -- those that do not pay child support. Certainly, some of the concerned members of the citizenry might have wondered if there is anything they can do to assist the authorities.

Well, if you own a business, there is something you can do to assist with child support collection. It is quite possibly the easiest law that a business can comply with.

Terms like "manhunt" and "grand jury" and "fugitive" are usually associated with high drama from Hollywood, or reserved for devious criminals trying to flee a dogged FBI agent. However, recently a Houston grand jury convened to launch a manhunt for a doctor who's accused of failing to pay his child support for more than a decade, reports KTRK Houston.

The investigation into this man's conduct -- identified as Dr. Wendell Marshall -- was carried out by a joint task-force made up of an entire conglomeration of governmental agencies which included: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, and the United State Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas with assistance from the United States Attorney's Office in Mississippi, reports the Humble Observer.

It has been since October 2010 and counting. Yes, it has been seven months since Houston rapper Scarface has been behind bars for refusal to pay child support. MTV.com reports the rapper is in jail in Harris County where he will likely remain until the outstanding amounts are paid.

As of the first of July, Scarface is facing four separate claims for support, from four separate women. MTV puts the amounts owed at $93,376, $50,000, a third bond for $30,000 and the fourth at $500, bringing the total to $173,876.

Non-custodial parents in Texas will soon have to pay the state additional $3 monthly child support fees for processing when making support payments, thanks to the approval of a state budget that is trying to make up for the revenue shortfall of at least $15 billion.

Reuters reports that the Texas House and Senate approved a two-year budget on Saturday and that the budget will now go to Governor Rick Perry’s desk for approval. Lawmakers had the goal of balancing the budget without raising taxes. So instead of taxes, the government is charging state residents in other ways.

Now it's even easier for the Texas government to track you down if you are delinquent on child support. This is because Commissioner of Workers' Compensation, Rod Bordelon, recently signed a data sharing agreement with the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), according to ClaimsJournal.com. The agreement will assist with the identification of individuals in the state who owe child support to one or more children.

The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation now has the new task of providing all the information necessary to allow for the federal child support agency to identify the individuals receiving workers' compensation indemnity payments as well as the insurance carriers making those payments. OCSE will then take the information and hand it over to the state agencies responsible for enforcing child support, including the Texas Office of the Attorney General's Child Support Division.

Seventeen non-custodial parents in El Paso County might be learning the consequences of not paying child support the hard way. According to the El Paso Times, the individual parents were arrested in a sweep that targeted people who were delinquent on their court-ordered child support.

The parents had to post cash bonds to get themselves out of police custody after Tuesday’s sweep and they will now face up to six months in jail if convicted of failing to pay child support. Other consequences of not paying child support can include fines, license revocation, and denial of a U.S. passport.

If you owe child support money in the state of Texas, you better either pay up, or you are at risk of doing time in jail. This is because Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has no tolerance for the non-custodial parents that cannot comply with a child support order.

KTRE quoted Abbott saying, "I consider a parent's failure to pay child support to be child abuse of its worst form." Delinquent parents in the state can be arrested on civil warrants and can face up to six months in jail for their failure to pay.